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Aviv Geffen, the grandson of legendary Moshe Dayan and number one Israeli rockist, is rapidly becoming a mythic figure himself. He was the last person to embrace Rabin before he was assassinated. The charismatic, bisexual singer-songwriter has rapidly become the Jim Morrison or Bob Dylan of his country, a voice that represents peace and integrity […] >>
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Gruf is a graffiti character that comes to life in animation. Gruf falls in love with the street artist who created him. He desperately tries to find her in the shabby streets of Tel Aviv and discovers that inter-dimensional love is not easy. >>
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When high school ends and adulthood begins, Benjamin and Joshua Israel, two identical twins of Jewish origin, start feeling burdened and without a future. Being in your twenties and having a sassy attitude is not enough if you have an intellectual disability and the world makes it hard for you to fit in. Joshua would […] >>
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Moments in Isolation Israel 2020
Nine filmmakers, confined to their homes during the Covid-19 lockdown, share fragments of their isolation experience: Manya is on the phone, speaking in Russian to lonely elderly people; Omer is on the phone to his Grandmother, infected with Covid-19. On the other side of town – Danny is smoking alone on her balcony and Reuven […] >>
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China is one of the first countries in the world to label overuse of the Internet a clinical condition. To combat what authorities deem the greatest social crisis for youth today, the Chinese government has created treatment facilities to detox and cure teenagers of their addictions to online life. But what starts out as an […] >>
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Have No Fear of Walking Alone into that Dark Night
From Moment in Isolation, Israel, 2020//Artistic Director: Noit Geva My grandmother contracted the coronavirus. She lives alone. She’s in a risk group. These are difficult days. I am in a tower at one end of town, and she’s at the other end. Communication between us is done over the phone. It’s hard to be apart, […] >>
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In his journeys to save Yiddish libraries and cultural treasures from destruction, Mandy Kahan visits the homes of the last Yiddish speakers, and gives their favorite books a home in the center he established at the central bus station in Tel Aviv. The film will tell the story of a dying culture through the hopeless […] >>
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Over a year ago, 22-year-old Zura’s mother left home, leaving him and his father behind. Since then, Zura’s father suffers from depression, and is busy drowning his sorrows in alcohol. Zura is forced to take care of him, while his soul longs for peace and freedom. An encounter with a captivating girl named Daniel will […] >>
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Anat Gov, one of the most influential playwrights in Israeli theatre, is preparing for her death. She asks Arik Kneller, an artists’ agent, to be the executor of her will. Arik struggles to accept the humor and serenity with which she faces her upcoming end. Anat, consciously accepting her nearing end, wishes to leave a […] >>
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Precocious eleven-year-old Yoav and his family must leave their familiar neighborhood in Tel Aviv for new opportunties in the northern city of Nazrat Elit. Malka, his mother, finds a job in a hotel and with it, new confidence and assertiveness. His older sister Anat falls in love with a romantic would-be rock star whose own […] >>
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This is the story of a girl who dreamt of being an officer in the IDF, who was a great patriot and who was shot and wounded in a 1978 terrorist attack on an El Al flight crew in London. Now a grown woman with daughters of her own, this mother does not allow them […] >>
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In this digital, multi-channel, post-modernist, virtual age there is often a need for that which is real, concrete and meaningful. A specific “place,” (”makom” in Hebrew) chosen from a personal and creative point of view, can become a revealing and enlightening fragment of reality. A “place” can tell a story, have its own atmosphere, a […] >>
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Pole dancing may have started in strip clubs, but over the past few years it has won international recognition as an art form, a sport and a means of empowering women. Director Isri Halpern follows Neta Lee Levy, the founder of Israel’s first pole dancing studio, as she competes for the European title. He discovers […] >>
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THE DEVIL NEXT DOOR is the true story of John Demjanjuk, a retired Ukrainian-American autoworker living a peaceful life with his family in Cleveland, Ohio suburbs in the 1980s. When a group of Holocaust survivors identify Demjanjuk’s photograph as “Ivan the Terrible” – a notoriously cruel Nazi death camp guard who tortured and killed nearly […] >>
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Two women, an Israeli and a Palestinian, are trying to build a business partnership. Brought together by a shared business acumen and knowledge of the logistics industry, the two combine forces to help Palestinian businessmen navigate the everyday absurdities of Israeli control of the West Bank. But while they help their clients to overcome the […] >>